Mumbai seen through me

As with every other blogger in the blogosphere, it is now my turn to write about the Mumbai Incident. So here goes

The time was around 10:30PM on that fateful day. My friend and I were analyzing the pros and cons of one of the most widely(?) product, whose origins have been lost in the annals of Village movies. All thanks to Bharathiraja & Co. We were on a full swing when my friend suddenly said Mumbai was being bombed away to glory. To plagiarize from ol’ Julius, I came, I saw and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. They said taj was burning, and I thought who the eff was taj and why is he burning? Then they said Oberoi has been hit and I imagined the baby faced actor being run over by a BMW (BMW is off late notorious for hit & run).

I shook off my cob webs and listened intently to what was happening in Mumbai and I finally realized that my friend has not been joking after all. He, being the chronic blogger, started blogging about the incident from his desktop, laptop, blackberry and I think he even sent an update tied to the legs of a pigeon. I later came to know that his blog had more than 800 hits in a single day. Suddenly, it was not just Mumbai burning. My stomach felt like Taj, Oberoi and Marriott combined!!! Most people know that I am a regular in Orkut and I faithfully started a thread about this, which to my glee, is now going to touch the 200 post mark. Some achievement, huh???

Ok, that is enough digression for the day. So getting back to the story, I shake my friend awake (At 1 o Clock at night) to tell him Mumbai is being bombed, and he tells me he is hungry. After telling him to bite the bullet, I resumed watching Counterstrike in real life and he started making Noodles.

What was horrific first became inquisitiveness second, anticipation third and finally became restless frustration at last. It was horrific because I saw people die in front of my eyes and I couldn’t do anything. It was inquisitiveness because I wanted to know why they did it, how they executed it and what the frigging politicians had to say about the incident. It was anticipation because I was told that the PM would address the nation and since I had great regard for him as a person. It finally became restless frustration because I was totally let down by such a weak attempt at addressing the nation. The interview with the External affairs minister was a big joke. I knew my frustration was at its peak when Shoba De (of all the people in the world) made some sense in this chaos. It was such an emotionally draining moment when I started empathising her sentiments.

Now that it is all over, and some heads in the political circle has rolled, there are a few questions which still linger

1. What has been achieved from this?

2. What did the youngsters who were sent in to do this dastardly act do for those in higher echelons of the fanatical franchise to brainwash them?

3. How many more brainwashed kids are you guys going to send before we actually shed the mask of Non-violence and stick a rod up each and every a@@@ of the maniacs?

4. When will Pakistan stop making jokes about diplomacy?

5. Dont you guys know that such a calamity would actually bring the people together rather than take them apart?

6. Dont you know that repeated strikes would only discard the rotten apples from the barrel called politics and there is an opportunity for fresh apple to get in?

I have also got some innocent questions for the political geniuses of the nation

1. When are you guys going to keep a statue for the dead men who lost their lives during those fateful days?

2. Do you really think giving money to the family of the dead would bring back the lost joy or would it justify their death?

3. How long are we going to show the other cheek? Our cheeks are already swollen

4. Will you have the guts to face the public again? I would ve shot myself if something of this sort happened when I was in charge?

PS: Opposition parties are not allowed to copy this under any circumstance, they are no different.

5. How are we going to respond to this act?

I am sure these are very few of the questions that we all want to ask, but we all know that this will be forgotten the next time Dhoni hits a Sixer or when Sachin breaks another record.

Maybe guns should be legalised in India, then we wouldn’t need the police, army, navy and the NSG to take care of a bunch of morons. Just a thought…